Sam Pepys Tells One

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 7

Sam Pepys Tells One

Extract from the Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.:— loth April, 1 6t>!) —By wuted to the Rear Garden and there happened to sit by Sir Frutehvillo Hollis, who is still full of his vain-glorious and prophane talk. Here we saw a prize fought between a soldier and a country fellow, one Warrell. who promised least in ids looks, and performed the most valour in his boldness and evenness of mind and smiles in all he did. that ever I saw, and we were all deceived and infinitely taken with him. He did soundly beat the soldier and cut him •ver the head. Then back to White Hall, mightily pleased, all of us. with this sight, and particularly with this fellow. a« a most extraordinary man for his temper and evenness in fightIf Master Pepys had been on the job, he would have recruited “one Warrell” immediately for his Navy boxing team. But probably lie was thinking •u* nothing else except how to get home rifely through the dark streets “and *o to bed.” A MORE MODERN STORY Georges Carpentier fought Joe Beckett twice and each time practically knocked him out with one punch. Some time later there was a gathering in the tviris apartment of Francois Des*amps, the manager of the famous Orchid Man. Carpentier was there, talking with some visitors about things pugilistic. ‘What kind of a fellow is this man. Beckett?” asked one of the visitors. * s he the stolid, silent man we’ve been told about?" Perhaps in reminiscence of the *peed with which he placed Beckett 1,1 a horizontal position. M’sieu Georges smiled and said: T really can’t tell you. They cartied him off before T had a chance to set acquainted with him.”